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1971
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The world population increased by 2. 1% this year, the highest in history. January 2 Ibrox disaster, A stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match in Glasgow, Scotland, a ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. January 3 – BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom, January 5 – The 1st ever ODI cricket match is played between Australia & England at the M. C. G. January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. January 12 – The landmark television sitcom All in the Family, starring Carroll OConnor as Archie Bunker, January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are released in Santiago, Chile, Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released January 16. January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt, January 18 – Strikes in Poland demand the resignation of Interior Minister Kazimierz Świtała. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by Franciszek Szlachcic, January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices, February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Khalij el-Arab countries. January 25 In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, in Los Angeles, Charles Manson and 3 female Family members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders. Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state, intelsat IV is launched, it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26. January 31 – Apollo program, Apollo 14 lifts off on the third lunar landing mission. February 4 – In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised, February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon. February 7 An earthquake in the city of Tuscania, Italy kills 31, Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific ones. Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party, February 8 – A new stock market index called the Nasdaq Composite debuts. February 9 The 6. 5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI, killing 64, satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Negro League. Apollo program, Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing, February 11 – The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor. February 11–February 12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman, February 13 – Vietnam War, Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. February 15 Decimal Day, – The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency, protesting Belgian farmers bring 3 live cows to crash the EEC meeting in Brussels. February 16 – In Italy, a local parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria, February 20 Fifty tornadoes rage in Mississippi, killing 74 people

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'71 (film)
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71 is a 2014 British historical thriller film set in Northern Ireland, written by Gregory Burke and directed by Yann Demange. Filming began on location in Blackburn, Lancashire, in April 2013 and continued in Sheffield, the film was funded by the British Film Institute, Film4, Creative Scotland and Screen Yorkshire. The film had its premiere in the section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Gary Hook, a new recruit to the British Army, takes leave of his younger brother Darren. Hooks platoon is sent to Belfast in 1971 in the years of the Troubles. Under the leadership of the inexperienced Second Lieutenant Armitage, his platoon is deployed to an area where Catholic Nationalists. The unit provides support for the Royal Ulster Constabulary as it inspects homes for firearms, a crowd gathers to protest and provoke the British troops who, though heavily armed, can only respond by trying to hold the crowd back. One soldier is hit unconscious by a rock and drops his rifle to the ground, in the confusion, a boy runs off through the mob with it. As the crowds protest violently escalates, the soldiers and police pull out, Hook and the other soldier are severely beaten by a mob, until a sympathetic woman manages to calm things down. However, the soldier is suddenly shot dead at point blank range by the Provisional Irish Republican Army gunman Paul Haggerty. With the crowd physically attacking him, Hook flees through streets and back alleys, eludes his pursuers, a Protestant youngster brings Hook to a local pub that serves as a front for Loyalists. There, Hook glimpses a Loyalist group in a room, constructing a bomb under the guidance of a member of the Military Reaction Force. Hook steps outside the pub just before an explosion destroys the building, killing or injuring many of those inside. Hook flees once more into the dark streets, unaware that the Loyalist bombers have blown themselves up accidentally, the PIRA and Official Irish Republican Army factions accuse each other of being responsible for the bombing. Two Catholics, Eamon and his daughter Brigid, discover Hook as he lies in a street unconscious and they take him to their home in the Divis Flats area before discovering he is a British soldier. Eamon, an army medic, stitches Hooks wounds. Despite the PIRAs having recently taken control of the area from the OIRA, Eamon contacts senior OIRA official Boyle for help, Quinn and his PIRA squad have been tailing Boyle since the pub explosion and saw him visit Eamons flat without knowing why he was there. Sensing danger, Hook flees the flat, taking a knife he finds in a bag

1971
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The world population increased by 2. 1% this year, the highest in history. January 2 Ibrox disaster, A stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match in Glasgow, Scotland, a ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. January 3 – BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom, January 5 – T

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January 15: Aswan Dam opens in Egypt.

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February 20: Tornadoes kill 74 in Mississippi.

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February 5: Apollo 14 on Moon

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February 7: Earthquake kills 31 in Tuscania, Italy.

'71 (film)
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71 is a 2014 British historical thriller film set in Northern Ireland, written by Gregory Burke and directed by Yann Demange. Filming began on location in Blackburn, Lancashire, in April 2013 and continued in Sheffield, the film was funded by the British Film Institute, Film4, Creative Scotland and Screen Yorkshire. The film had its premiere in the